Monday, May 05, 2014

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Norwood Hospital has received the Get With The Guidelines®–Stroke Silver
Quality Achievement Award for implementing specific quality improvement
measures outlined by the American Heart/Association Stroke Association
for the treatment of stroke patients.

Get With The Guidelines–Stroke program helps hospital teams provide the
most up-to-date, research-based guidelines with the goal of speeding
recovery and reducing death and disability for stroke patients. Norwood
Hospital earned the award by meeting specific quality achievement
measures for the rapid diagnosis and treatment of stroke patients at a
set level for a designated period. These measures include proper use of
medications and aggressive risk-reduction therapies aimed at reducing
death and disability and improving the lives of stroke patients.

“Norwood Hospital is dedicated to improving the quality of stroke care
and the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines–Stroke
program helps us to accomplish this goal,” said Emily Holliman, Norwood
Hospital President. “With this award, our hospital demonstrates our
commitment to ensure that our patients receive care based on
internationally-respected clinical guidelines.”

“We are pleased to recognize Norwood Hospital for their commitment and
dedication to stroke care,” said Deepak L. Bhatt, M.D., M.P.H., national
chairman of the Get With The Guidelines steering committee and Executive
Director of Interventional Cardiovascular Programs at Brigham and
Women's Hospital and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
“Studies have shown that hospitals that consistently follow Get With The
Guidelines quality improvement measures can reduce patients’ length of
stays and 30-day readmission rates and reduce disparity gaps in care.”

According to the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association,
stroke is the number four cause of death and a leading cause of adult
disability in the United States. On average, someone suffers a stroke
every 40 seconds; someone dies of a stroke every four minutes; and
795,000 people suffer a new or recurrent stroke each year.

About Norwood Hospital:Norwood Hospital is a full-service, 263-bed community hospital for
adults and children with a focus on delivering world-class health care
along with the latest advances in technology and treatment options.
Norwood Hospital is part of the Steward Health Care System LLC, the
largest integrated community care organization in New England which
combines over 3,000 physicians, 11 acute care hospitals, managed care,
insurance programs, home care, an imaging operation, and a number of
other post-acute services, to provide the most cost effective and
highest quality of integrated patient care. Additional information is
available at www.norwood-hospital.org

About Get With The Guidelines
Get With The Guidelines® is the American Heart Association/American
Stroke Association’s hospital-based quality improvement program that
provides hospitals with the latest research-based guidelines. Developed
with the goal of saving lives and hastening recovery, Get With The
Guidelines has touched the lives of more than 4 million patients since
2001. For more information, visit heart.org/quality
or heart.org/myhealthcare.